Seeds without borders – forests as European natural heritage. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Seeds without borders – forests as European natural heritage.

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Environment and climate change; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries

Project Summary

Seeds without borders – Forests as European natural heritage. It is project carried out by students and teachers from European countries: Poland, France, Cyprus, Hungary, Italy and Spain from 2020-2022. It is an interdisciplinary project combining Biology, Genetics, Geography, Environmental Science, Language, Arts.
The project will make a major contribution to informal and formal forest education by sharing scientific, cultural knowledge, skills and values with students and teachers. By the project students and teachers be aware of impotance of forests protection becasue of their values. The project will serve for students providing outdoor laboratories for formal, traditional education and research. Thanks to the forest education more and more students will be aware of multiple benefits of sustainable forest management, environment protection and reasonable forest use.
Students will shape key competences. They will be able to use new digital technologies,internet application: Students and teachers will get new skills of using applications: Prezi, Movi, Keynote, Class Flow, Slide Dog, Zoho Show, easel.ly, genail.ly.
These educational activities will enhance the transferable skills of students and thus contribute indirectly to increase the possibility of finding jobs related to forests in the future. Professional development project program have been designed to offer both formal and practical opportunities for students to expand their knowledge and abilities of making observation and measurements in forests in international groups.
The project will answer to challenges of UNESCO World Heritage Forest Programme. An effective forest strategy is an essential element of the EU’s wider climate policy. By encouraging and promoting the sustainable management of forests and their multifunctional role, the strategy helps to fight deforestation, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere by sequestering carbon, to enhance resilience of ecosystems to a fast changing climate and to protect and preserve biodiversity and other ecosystem services.
In the project students will get to know to genetic techniques of seed storage, identification. Schools will start cooperation with Institutes responsible for preservation of the gene pool of the most valuable species of trees and shrubs. They will know EUFORGEN – the European Forest Genetic Resources Programme that promotes the conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources in Europe as an integral part of sustainable forest management. BY the project our schools will participate in European strategy of forest conservation and protection forest resources.
During projects many products will be created: web page, eTwinning platform, digiatal posters, digital booklets, map of forests, movies put on Youtube, photos.

Project Website

http://www.forest.erasmusproject.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 165120 Eur

Project Coordinator

Salezjanskie Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Istituto Superiore E. Mattei
• IES San Blas
• Kaposvári Tankerületi Központ SA1101 Kaposvári Munkácsy Mihály Gimnázium
• LYCEE GENERAL ET TECHNOLOGIQUE PLAINE DE L AIN
• LYKEIO AGIOU CHARALAMPOUS EMPAS